"We are running on outdated software", "operating cavemen brains in a technologically advanced society". For thousands of years, our environment changed very slowly. Parents and children had more or less the same lives. Now we live in a world of exponential technological chance. Borders are becoming blurry and social groups...
Archive for category: Future Society
Podcast episodes about future society from the Future Thinkers Podcast by Mike Gilliland and Euvie Ivanova
FTP012: The Future Of Marketing is Storytelling
In the 20th century, with the rise of mass media came a time when companies could broadcast their marketing messages far and wide to millions of people. It didn't matter if the message was relevant to each person, because as long as a small percentage of people bought the...
FTP004: Would You Date a Machine?
Science fiction can be awesome for imagining the future. Everybody loves a good story, and movies are one of the best mediums to tell stories. Though sometimes they aren't as scientifically accurate as they could be, movies are still great at visualizing futurist ideas and communicating them in a...
FTP001: Technology, Spirituality, and Artificial Intelligence
There are many dystopian scenarios that people come up with when they think about future Artificial Intelligence. The Matrix, Terminator, and many other pop culture examples come to mind. Of course, they’re just movies - but they do reflect a fear that many people have of AI getting out...